Jason "Psycho" Suttie (born 7 August 1973) is a Samoan-born

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

former

heavyweight Heavyweight is a weight class in combat sports and professional wrestling. Boxing Professional Boxers who weigh over are considered heavyweights by 3 of the 4 major professional boxing organizations: the International Boxing Federation, the Wo ...

kickboxer Kickboxing is a combat sport focused on kicking and punching. The combat takes place in a boxing ring, normally with boxing gloves, mouthguards, shorts, and bare feet to favour the use of kicks. Kickboxing is practiced for self-defense, general ...

and 6 time

Muay Thai Muay Thai ( th, มวยไทย, , ), sometimes referred to as Thai boxing, is a combat sport that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. This discipline is known as the "art of eight limbs", as it is characterised ...

World champion fighting out of Elite Thai Kickboxing Gym in

Auckland Auckland (pronounced ) ( mi, Tāmaki Makaurau) is a large metropolitan city in the North Island of New Zealand. The List of New Zealand urban areas by population, most populous urban area in the country and the List of cities in Oceania by po ...

Biography and career

In his youth Suttie fought under the great NZ trainer Lollo Heimuli of the gym Balmoral Lee Gar, training alongside

Ray Sefo Ray Sefo (born 15 February 1971) is a New Zealand fight promoter and retired kickboxer, boxer, and mixed martial artist of Samoan descent. He was the K-1 World Grand Prix 2000 Runner Up, is a six-time Muay Thai World Champion, and was an eigh ...

Jayson Vemoa Jayson Vemoa is the President of the Japan Niue Friendship Association based in Tokyo and has served as an Honorary Consul and Special Envoy to Niue in Japan. He is a former two time Muay Thai World Champion kickboxer from New Zealand of Niue a ...

and

Doug Viney Douglas Ma'afu Hawke, better known as Doug "Vicious" Viney (born 20 November 1976) is a Tongan-New Zealander heavyweight boxer and kickboxer. He is the K-1 World GP 2007 in Las Vegas champion, who also represented Tonga as a super heavywei ...

. Having some 25 fights before opening his own gym, Jason has been very successful both as an amateur and professional kickboxer. As an amateur he took a New Zealand title and the South Pacific super middleweight and light heavyweight titles. In 1996 Jason graduated from

with a B.A. in education and in the same year was the first Kiwi to fight in the K-1 kickboxing promotion, at his fight

was in the audience negotiating his K-1 contract. In 1997 Jason won his first world title and by 2000 he had racked up five more world titles in five different weight divisions from super middleweight (76 kg) through to super heavyweight (95 kg) with four different federations. In 2010 he was acquitted of aggravated robbery and blackmail charges. Jason now owns and runs his gym Elite Thai Kickboxing with his partner Roger Earp in

, New Zealand. He now promotes

King in the Ring King in the Ring is a kickboxing tournament that is held in New Zealand. Tournament format King in the Ring is a last man standing eight man tournament that is complete in one night. Seven boxing bouts will be contested in one night, each bout ...

to find NZ's most promising upcoming fighters.

Titles

* 2006 K-1 World Grand Prix in Auckland Runner Up * 2004 Kings of Oceania Runner Up * 2003 K-1 World Grand Prix in Melbourne Runner Up * 2002 K-1 NZ Champion * 2002 KB4 Champion * 2001 WMTA World Super Heavyweight Champion * 2001 WKBF World Heavyweight Champion * 2000 WKBF World Cruiserweight Champion * 1999 WKBF World Light Heavyweight Champion * 1998 ISKA World Super Middleweight Champion * 1996 UTC World Super Middleweight Champion

Kickboxing record

Boxing record

Mixed martial arts record

, - , Loss , align=center, 0–1 ,

Sergei Kharitonov Sergei Valerievich Kharitonov (russian: Серге́й Вале́рьевич Харито́нов, Sergéj Valér'jevich Kharitónov, ; born August 18, 1980) is a Russian professional heavyweight mixed martial artist and former kick ...

, Submission (armbar) , PRIDE Bushido 1 , , align=center, 1 , align=center, 2:25 , Saitama, Japan ,

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Suttie, Jason New Zealand male kickboxers Samoan male kickboxers Middleweight kickboxers Light heavyweight kickboxers Cruiserweight kickboxers Heavyweight kickboxers Samoan male boxers Heavyweight boxers New Zealand Muay Thai practitioners Samoan Muay Thai practitioners Sportspeople from Auckland Sportspeople from Apia Samoan emigrants to New Zealand 1973 births Living people People educated at St Paul's College, Auckland New Zealand male boxers New Zealand male mixed martial artists Samoan male mixed martial artists Mixed martial artists utilizing Muay Thai Mixed martial artists utilizing boxing Fighters trained by Lolo Heimuli